[Hook: Ellie I had a way it all on my own I had a then But the has been overthrown And I'm not now The dark is too hard to And I'm not up The strength I need to me You show the lights stop me, turn to stone You it when I'm alone And so I tell myself that I'll be And dreaming they're gone Cause they're calling, calling, calling me Calling, calling, home You show the that stop me, turn to stone You it when I'm alone
[Verse 1 - Fiasco] So, what are you going to for? in the sky, I and I 2 new Vans on a for that back, make that 2 new shoes on the van floor Me and my out on that road On a tour more souls than a dance floor While touch less floors than a hand or Ceiling fan or - wait, let me tell ya Lift my fans up to the And you'll touch the floor Now if Noah a rower I'll be with my oar Til we get to the shore Dad me a soldier GI Joe to Cobras Tryna FBI my CIA my Infiltrate my Illuminate my While they through that buckle But I up on my hustle Turn that belt on they self Now I watch them for help Like Africa need aid, or black women as undercovers turn those maids to Bubba's mothers Take the hero out the it real as trouble trouble huh? Or cartoon Martin on The Boondocks Flip the script on who think their shit smells like perfume shops Help girls find beauty Without a or movie She with them .45s and Keisha with that Uzi Now I know contradiction Wants and needs in but It's hard to stay on point with such extremes in While we waiting on that with that conscious eye New gang alert: occupies Repper 'til the of it FnF, what's of me All my hate is for the fake for wrestling time I wrestle's when I'm wrestling with settling Only way I settle if we over everything I know don't mix like ecstasy and ketamine Funny how I'm only if you never catch a thing Argue with your over what really the record means Back and forth about its course, with refereeing Why he so rebellious? with his realness? They wanna be fiascoes, his failures Emperor is his alias, but not Marcus is more like Sparta: kick you down a well, kid And on my last check, I copped the NSX, just Pharrell did Well did, doings to come My promise is I'll never ruin the young I'll never human the lyrics in a spirit that's Superhuman to some, you pursuing the sum of Slums, plus, get up out of them, plus, never where you from, plus Make you ballin' when you come back up in them, plus We don't die, multiply, single come-up Rum-pum-pum-pum..